Wilhelm Exner

Wilhelm Exner (1900)

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Wilhelm Franz Exner (born April 9, 1840 in Gänserndorf , Lower Austria , † May 25, 1931 in Vienna ) was honorary president of the Austrian Trade Association , technician and forest scientist .

biography

Exner was the son of the station management of Gänserndorf on the Kaiser-Ferdinand-Nordbahn , which connected Vienna with Moravia and Galicia and started operations a year before Wilhelm Exner was born. It was the first railway in Austria. The family moved to Vienna in 1853. He studied at the Polytechnic Institute, had been a member of the Olympia fraternity and the Olympia Vienna fraternity since 1859, and was a middle school teacher at the Landstraßer Oberrealschule from 1862-1868 . In 1868 he became a professor at the Mariabrunn Forest Academy , which he headed from 1875 with the task of incorporating it into the Vienna University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences ; at the same time he was appointed full professor of general mechanical technology and forestry civil and mechanical engineering.

He was the initiator and from 1879 to 1904 the first director of the Technological Trade Museum in Vienna, a higher education and research institute. Until 1910 Exner was head of the kk trade promotion office, which was subordinate to the kk trade ministry and was named 1908, the first state economic development agency in Austria.

In 1910 he became head of the technical research institute. In 1908 he was instrumental in founding the Technical Museum for Industry and Commerce in Vienna, which opened in 1918. From 1917 to 1931 Exner was in charge of TÜV Austria . In 1925 he was made an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences . Shortly before his death in 1931, he helped found the Austrian Research Institute for the History of Technology.

Parallel to his scientific and technical work, Exner was also politically active in the monarchy. From 1882 to 1897 he was a liberal member of the Reichsrat , in 1905 he was appointed by the emperor for life to a member of the manor , the upper house of the Reichsrat.

May 29, 1931 is often erroneously stated on the web as the date of Exner's death. Czeike states (in accordance with the official Wiener Zeitung of May 27th) May 25th, the Neue Freie Presse reported on May 26th that Exner died on the night of Pentecost Sunday , May 24th, 1931. The search for the deceased on the website of the Vienna Cemetery records the date of death on May 25th and the day of burial on May 27th 1931.

Honors

Wilhelm Exner has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Vienna University of Technology, the Vienna University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and the Zurich University of Technology.

The Austrian Trade Association awards since 1921 on the Wilhelm Exner Foundation, the Wilhelm Exner Medal for outstanding scientific achievements that "the economy have promoted directly or indirectly in an excellent manner. In particular, those achievements are to be honored that are important in the area of ​​entrepreneurial medium-sized companies. "

Wilhelm Exner was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 14 C, number 2) in an honorary grave ( honorary graves ).

The Wilhelm Exner House of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, named after him .

The following are also named after Wilhelm Exner:

• The Wilhelm Exner-Gasse in Vienna's 9th district , named for the 90th birthday Exner 1930; it runs along the side of the building in which the Technological Trade Museum he founded was located between 1884 and 1987 , today the WUK cultural center ;
• the Wilhelm Exner House of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna , opened in 1960;
• in Exner's hometown Gänserndorf the Dr. Wilhelm Exner Platz ;
• the Wilhelm-von-Exner-Strasse in Salzburg ;
• the meeting room of the former kk trade promotion office (see above) in Vienna 9th, Severingasse 9, is under monument protection as Wilhelm-Exner-Saal .
• the Exneraal of the Technological Trade Museum (TGM), which is located on the second floor of the laboratory wing.

Fonts

• The kk polytechnic institute in Vienna. Its foundation, its development and its current state , Vienna 1861
• Investigation of the properties of the paper , Vienna 1864
• The wallpaper and colored paper industry , Weimar 1869
• as editor: Contributions to the history of trades and inventions in Austria from the middle of the 18th century to the present. World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873
  • Volume 1: Raw production and industry , Vienna 1873
  • Volume 2: Engineers, scientific and musical instruments, teaching , Vienna 1873
• Mödlinger teaching material exhibition 1875. Studies on the beech wood , Vienna 1875
• Johann Beckmann , founder of technological science , Vienna 1878 (Reprint Hoya 1989)
• as editor: The domestic industry in Austria: A commentary on the domestic industrial division at the General Agriculture and Forestry Exhibition, Vienna 1890 , Vienna 1890
• together with Georg Lauboeck: The bending of wood. An important process for furniture, wagon and ship builders, coopers, etc. With special consideration for Thonet's industry , (3rd, revised and expanded edition.), Weimar 1893
• The World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 , Vienna in 1902
• The Imperial and Royal Technological Trade Museum in Vienna in the first quarter of a century. 1879-1904. Memorandum , Vienna 1904
• Studies on the administration of the railways of Central European countries , Vienna 1906
• The Technical Museum for Industry and Commerce in Vienna , Vienna 1908
• Life pictures of leading Austrian polytechnicians , Vienna 1927
• as editor: 10 years of reconstruction. The state, cultural and economic development of the Republic of Austria 1918-1928 , Vienna 1928
• Experiences , Vienna 1929

literature

• Fritz Steiner:  Exner, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 703 ( digitized version ).
• Exner Wilhelm Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 276.
• Franz Renisch: Wilhelm Franz Exner. 1840-1931 . Holzhausen, Vienna 1999, 524 pages, ISBN 3-85493-010-0
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 270-272

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Exner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Wilhelm Exner  in the German Digital Library
• Entry on Wilhelm Exner in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Entry on Wilhelm Exner in the database of the state's memory for the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Entry about Wilhelm Exner in the database of the Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the Lower Austrian State Museum
2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 270.
3. ↑ Dr. Peter Krause, "Catholic color students in Austria 1933 - 1983", p. 6
4. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2: De-Gy. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 237.
5. ^ Daily newspaper Neue Freie Presse , Vienna, No. 23957 of May 26, 1931, p. 5
6. ↑ Website of the Vienna cemeteries, search for the deceased ( memento of the original from August 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Website of the Wilhelm Exner Foundation ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Wilhelm-Exner-Saal on the website of the Federal Monuments Office
9. ^ TGM School of Technology Exnersaal. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .